[ltp] ThinkPad T40, finding modem in Mandrake 9.2?

[Mark Houlder]

I have the modem on my T41 working fine, but you have to taint your 
kernel with some 3rd party modules (it's a while since i installed it so 
can't remember details) before ppp can use it

the package to look for is agrmodem iirc (agr as in Agere), i think 
there's a link to it on IBM's site but i couldn't find it just now; it's 
a tarball rather than an rpm, but easy enough to install. then just load 
the module and away you go (works flawlessly for me with Suse9, so 
mandrake should be ok)

i believe other people have also had success with slmodem drivers 
(smartlink), but i haven't tried them. from what i've read they're 
slightly more work to install, but won't taint your kernel.

(all this is from memory so may be slightly off)



mark



Matt Graham wrote:

>On Tuesday 24 February 2004 09:39, after a long battle with technology, 
>Annika Wille wrote:
>  
>
>>I tried to connect to the internet from Linux. I installed Mandrake
>>9.2 on my ThinkPad T40. Appearently Mandrake does not find my built
>>in modem. Did anyone have similar problems? 
>>    
>>
>
>http://bellet.info/~bellet/laptop/t40.html#internal_modem 
>
>Apparently, getting this LoseModem to work requires compiling a kernel 
>module and a userspace program.  It's not as simple as the Lucent 
>LoseModems, but at least one person got it working.
>
>  
>


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